Full Length Plays by Cecilia Copeland

"R Culture"An edgy satire about Our/Rape Culture,told through a Theatrical circus freak show by a Ringmaster and two Clowns as they drop the mask everything from bridzillas to football revealing the naked truth about RCulture. ​KILROY'S LIST HONORABLE MENTION 2015Production IRT Theatre

Light of Night

Stephanie's poetic descent into the underworld of marriage. As her seductive best friend and charismatic husband fight over who she should be.In the end she must decide which doors to leave open for light and which windows to bar against the cold.Kilroy's List Nominee 2014"5 Stars" -DC Metro Theater Arts, "Highly Recommended" -DC Theatre Scene, Top Three Must See -the Gazette(More on Press Page)Productions at Venus Theatre, MD 2014 and IATI Theatre, NYC 2014This daring play has been developed at Arts/West and New Dramatists.

ATLANTIS UNEARTHED

Four Manhattanites and a Fairy-Mermaid Cross aremaking their way through your typical mass shootings, civil unrest and global ecological meltdown, while trying to get laid, when the island cracks open and Atlantis rises to either destroy us or save us from ourselves!#Sci-Fi Developed at The Lark Play Development CenterReading Planet Connections Festivity 2015

BIOLIFE

BIOLIFA Sci-Fic about modern life where all things are supercharged with artificial emotions. What will we do when we discover how false they are and is life without them going to sustain us?

Workshop Production 2014The Chain TheatreStaged Reading with The Private Theatre NYC.Semifinalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the David Calicchio Emerging Playwright's Prize at Marin Theater Company MTC, 2012. Finalist for Mabou Mines Residency, 2012Workshop in October 2012 with TerraNOVA CollectiveStaged Reading Nuyorican Poetry Club 2012

COURTING

A poetic comedy about finding love and selling your soul.

Surrounded by suitors in a ridiculous whirlpool of romance, sex, money, and societal constrictions Madelyn tries to find her way in a post divorce world, while her nemesis and alter ego The Cheerleader attempts to make her into a cookie cutter version of womanhood.

Semifinalist for The O'Neill Playwright's Conference, 2013Staged Reading undergroundzero festival, 2013Winner of SLP's Best New Play, Workshop Production in 2009

"The Wicked Son" A Passover Play

A play about love, spiritually, the Middle East, and Gefilte fish. Heavy guilt meets tiara humor when the youngest brother in the family, Saul returns home from serving in the Israeli army with news of his pregnant Palestinian girlfriend. Our Drag Queen Hostess tries to hold the Seder together as each member of the family must make peace with the ghosts of the past wrapped in the politics of today in order to have Passover as a modern, culturally mixed, American family.

DINNER WITH FRENEMIESUpcoming Staged Reading, Project Y Theatre, July 2016 Kori and Will are games designers and best friends-who hate each other's partners.When they decide to have dinner with all four of themit naturally turns into a competition spanning everythingfrom vegan h'orderves to ISIS to Ms. PacMan.​The last couple standing is supposed to win the ultimate game,but at what cost?

LIKE FATHER LIKE DAUGHTER(In Development)When your father is a convicted criminal your inheritancecan be more of a curse, but like all curses there must be a wayto break it.​

BREATHE IN SOME OF THAT(In Development)Yoga, Sexual Misconduct and Farts...How can you keep doingDownward Dog with a straight facewhen your guru has been slappedwith a harassment lawsuit?

One Woman Honors Thesis: University of IowaLennis J. Holm Award Scholarshop Writers Workshop U of IowaProduction for SWAN Day 2008 Directed by Sarah Portions read on KRUI Radio and in the New Play Festival at University of Iowa.If there are two kinds of women in the world... which one is the right one?​Holding Forward Developmental Reading at The WilmaTheatre in Philedelphia directed by Jay WahlThe story of deciding what to hold onto... love, mistakes, the past and what it takes to move forward.

One Acts

PlayingProduction int he UDF Festival University of IowaOpen Hydrant Theatre Co Bronx NYCKennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, First Honorable MentionDana and Donny want to win the game of Love and Life, but they can't win playing against each other.Amusement BomberAdapted into a 26 min short film with a grant from Metro Screen Productions.Femin-Natzi For Hire Will be Produced for SLUT by The Disreputables in WDC.A dark comedy about the horrors of being called feminist and still needing to be one.

UNPAID DEBTSCommissioned by The Drilling Co, NYFamily Dues, History,

PAYBACK When you climb into bed with someone you think you knowbut the turn out to be a complete stranger.

BILLBOARDS GREATEST HITSCommissioned by The High School of Performing ArtsProduction 2012.Produced by Open Hydrant Theatre Co 2014

Velvet EggsCommissioned by The Overturn Theatre Ensemble and Read at Culturefix Gallery NYCPresented in the [untitled] Reading Series at Happy Endings on the LES, NYCUpcoming reading along with Playing in a night of One Acts at IATI Theater in April 2012Press about Velvet Eggs"No one's ever talked about my balls like that." MAN

SCARCommissioned and Produced by the Play the Moment and The Pink Ribbon Project,at The Orlando Repertory Theater 2011.

Words of a RevolutionaryProduced by The Anarchist Theatre Festival of Montreal 2010To be published by PM Press in, A History of Anarchism in Japan by Adrienne Hurley 2014Based on the Writings of Kaneko Fumiko